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though many have been brought here, it is not 

 likely that the generality of Americans know the 

 pure bred Percherons. But all of us are familiar 

 with Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair." The models 

 of the horses in this stirring and beautiful picture 

 were Percherons, and nearly all of them stallions. 

 The French, and other Latins besides, have a 

 fondness for using stallions in ordinary work, and 

 any day in Paris a visitor may see a long string of 

 Percheron stallions drawing a heavy load as pla- 

 cidly as geldings would do it. There is no reason 

 why stallions should not be used more generally 

 in this country. The prejudice against their use 

 as saddle- and harness-horses no doubt arose when 

 the business of a greater part of the country was 

 transacted by travelers who needed to hitch their 

 horses where other horses were also tethered. But 

 in work where a groom or driver is always in 

 charge of a horse the stallion may be used with 

 much advantage to himself and satisfaction to his 

 owner. 



M. du Hays on the Percheron and illustrated it with photographs of 

 horses and mares of his own importation. It is one of the handsomest 

 horse books ever published. 



